The hooded defence cape is a Cape of Accomplishment for the Defence skill with a defence hood attached. It is the hooded version of the defence cape. It's made by using the defence hood on the defence cape, which can be reversed with the right-click "Detach" option. It requires level 99 Defence to wear

The Defence cape can be easy to acquire compared to other combat skill capes because it can be trained with every combat style.

The cape also has an emote, lasting 5.42 seconds, during which the player uses shields to defend from various attacks such as arrows and rocks. The Defence cape must be equipped in order to perform this emote.

Should a player achieve skill mastery in a second skill after Defence, the Defence cape will turn into a Hooded defence cape (t), which is the trimmed version of the original cape. The Defence cape (t) has a cream-coloured trim.

Talking to Harlan gives an option to toggle the appearance of the cape to a retro version, overriding the normal appearance and making it look similar to how it did before the 2015 graphical update. Despite it not being a new item, the retro cape can be used with a dragon keepsake key.